Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company
2 sources·Updated October 9, 2026
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- Guardian International·12h agoI saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait
It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by Tehran Pete Hegseth’s plans to stage a public execution resemble a grotesque Iran-imitation game. Having failed over the past seven months to defeat the Tehran regime on…
Read at Guardian International → - Guardian World·17h agoPete Hegseth’s plan to livestream execution puts US in dubious company
Only Iran and Afghanistan routinely carry out sentences in public, with Saudi Arabia appearing to have ended practice US politics – live updates If the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, goes ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a soldier radicalised to extremist…
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